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I love it! He’s not pimping “gay issues”, he’s just a normal person concerned with what the rest of us normal people are concerned with. And he’s got a great attitude and sense of humor. Unless it comes out that he’s an anti-Trumper or RINO, I hope he wins.

dallas, ab the time I canceled my local rag, it had indeed been reduced to nearly comic book dimensions.
the newspapers are in SUCH trouble.
And they do not learn.
Mine hired an anti-Trump Editorial Page Editor right before The Election, who dropped acidic comments into editorials which had nothing to do with Trump or The Election.
I was just one of many who said whoa…WTH?

I delight in watching their demise. I am convinced they are broken beyond repair and will drag themselves into financial ruin, becoming candidates for acquisition by persons who will seek to make them respectable.

dallas…I hope you are correct.
One of the Seattle papers went to online only 3 yrs ago…the other is unreadable.
ours down here in the boonies was good until ab 5 yrs before The Election.
They keep telling themselves electronic access is the future…and are putting their eggs in that basket.
I do so hope their business are co-opted by Conservatives rather than entirely closed.

Their’s is not a liberal bias. It is an all-out communist war against our country. They are trying to gang-up because they have been shown to be so pathetic, ridiculous, and programmed. 6 families — 19 billionaires are using this forum to try to get their purposes – not American purposes — pushed through. I hope they all hang — eventually.

Popular dictionary.
US Senate = a bunch of cowards who love their freebies and privileges but can’t raise their hand to benefit America and Americans. A political body consisting of professional nincompoops with very, very few exceptions, highly susceptible to bribing and other forms of corruption.

Yep. In a heavily slanted interview yesterday @jack says they apply the same rules equally to everyone. And then when asked about the “dog” twit he explains that some people are more equal than others.

I was watching his face and he appears to have very effectively integrated massive duplicity into his public persona. Some people would call it a “lack of candor.”

Eliminate guilty pleas without trial, like Flynn, etc. because of bankrupting defendant.
How many cases, THAT WENT TO TRIAL, and resulted in conviction?

In all the cases Mueller has done so far, seems his prosecutors have very little trial experience, as the make amatuer mistakes, are unprepared, etc.

I think they are ‘spoiled’, and can’t prosecute a case without, yes ILLEGAL investigations, followed by UNETHICAL prosecutions.

Our system is DELIBERATELY set up to advantage the defendant. The idea is, which would you rather have; 100 guilty people going to jail, along with ONE who is innocent, or 100 guilty people ‘getting off’, but no innocents going to jail?

Our system is set up to STRIVE for the latter. Hence, burden of proof is on the STATE, must ring guilt beyond REASONABLE DOUBT, and there are a # of other things written into the rules and procedures, to benefit the defendant.
Therefore, NO WAY we should be seeing such high conviction rate, without either/both illegal investigative techniques, prosecutorial misconduct.

Watching Tucker and couldn’t help but chuckle. Tucker was interviewing Poindexter from Revenge of the Nerds (can’t remember his name but he is so much like the doofus Poindexter character) who made the statement that PDJT taking Brennan’s security clearance was depriving him of making a living. Call me crazy but is that not a blatant admission that Brennan needs the clearance to earn his keep at MSLSD?

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Benghazi Survivors Given NDAs at CIA Memorial Service for Woods, Doherty
Two former CIA officials who fought in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, were asked to sign additional nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) more than six months after those attacks. The two officials, who…

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The Big Reveal: The Story of How 470,000 Documents from Osama Bin Laden’s Compound Finally Got Into…
On the penultimate day of the Obama administration, less than 24 hours before the president would vacate the White House, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper issued a press release meant…

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Al Qaeda Wasn’t ‘on the Run’
In the early morning hours of May 2, 2011, an elite team of 25 American military and intelligence professionals landed inside the walls of a compound just outside the Pakistani city of Abbottabad….

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Don’t like Trump’s decision to revoke Brennan’s security clearance? Fine. I don’t either. It was vindictive and petty. But don’t pretend Brennan was a disinterested, apolitical IC leader. He wasn’t. He was a hack then — and he’s a hack now.

But that kind of means that his hat (I presume he left it in the car since its not on his head) must be kind of white, since they only attack allies of POTUS. If the “Possum” was one of them they would surely have done the opposite and booked out El Tiempo until the end of time in solidarity.

So I present: Final, clear and un-refutable evidence of the colour of the hat that is hiding from sight in the car of Mr Possum!

Better track down that company and find out how many “Cardboard Jeff’s” there are, then we can tot up all sightings of a Jeff, subtract the “Cardboard Jeff’s” from the total to see if there is a real Jeff out there. Man, this is getting hard. I can see why one can get quite sleepy when thinking about (or being) a Jeff. The Possum’s onto something after all!

Yeah, I see what you did there. If the Possum is asleep by definition, then any evidence to the contrary must have an alternate explanation. Here’s hoping for an exponential increase in “Cardboard Jeff’s”. Off to buy me some cardboard futures since I’m an optimist!

By the way, I can’t “Like” a comment since not on wordpress, so take any reponse as a “Like”, unless the comment is not likeable, in which case don’t. I’m doing my head in again, off for some more ZZZZ’s.

I think they want ALL branches of the military to be represented, not just the Marines. Since the swamp is still very swampy, only the Marines are currently equipped for operating in such conditions. Partial draining has occurred, so draft not sufficient for larger Naval vessels! This signals that dry land is expected in swamp territory in 2019!

We have been saving our money and were literally booking the rooms this weekend. Close call! Will spend the money in other ways, like Christmas. We were making this a priority. So glad we hadn’t booked our rooms yet …. but VERY disappointed!

Haven’t logged into my account in months (when I realized my feed was being manipulated) but that doesn’t stop me from routinely checking accounts of POTUS, Sundance, Imperator Rex, Thomas Wictor and even James Woods.

Geniuses, all 🇺🇸

The hatred, disgust and TDS on display in some of the responses is nauseating.

I now realize just howclose we are to finally hearing/seeing the truth come out.

Predictably, the entertainment media did its best to ignore the latest bombshell, to wish it away, to cover it up, but — and thank heaven for this — in the age of New Media, these corrupt dinosaurs no longer have that kind of power.

I also feel like Disney knows something else about James Gunn. Something that has not been uncovered yet and that’s another reason why they can’t and should not bring him back.

.@TuckerCarlson speaking of John Brennan: “How did somebody so obviously limited intellectually get to be CIA Director in the first place?” Now that is a really good question! Then followed by “Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut is a FAKE War Hero…” So true, a total Fake!

How can “Senator” Richard Blumenthal, who went around for twenty years as a Connecticut politician bragging that he was a great Marine war hero in Vietnam (then got caught and sobbingly admitted he was neither a Marine nor ever in Vietnam), pass judgement on anyone? Loser!

Now I remember who George Paddapoplis’ wife’s reminds me of, well, her voice anyway, She was just on the last Tucker segment discussing him possibly withdrawing his guilty plea, and I was listening but not really watching.

Just close your eyes and imagine her saying: “You like wild things, Mr. Bond, Mr. James Bond?” ( that would be Luciana Paluzzi as S.P.E.C.T.R.E. assassin Fiona Volpe in Thunderball ). He better hope this isn’t life imitating art!

I wonder if George has a Mustang. “You better fasten your safety belt.”

I remember a few years back, okay maybe decades, when Pepsi went hard after Coke with music stars leading the charge in a wave of new commercials. She had great one that didn’t air for very long because they shifted over to the more pop genre with Britney Spears or whatever her name was. Aretha’s was much better. I think this is it …

This guy kind of meanders and says a couple of questionable things about good presidents. But he describes himself as an independent that hopes future candidates after 2024, follow in Trump’s path. Some language.

Hannitus Interruptus as usual. This time over Bondi and DiGenova. And Joe was just getting out some very good points about Mueller rather than his usual bloviating indignation.

He’s like a freaking child Hannity. All parents have to go through the stage of making your kid realize he is not the center of the universe, and to not dominate every room and situation they are in. Hannity’s parents must have been absentee or something. Seeing how he was raised with all sisters he must be making up for lack of attention. Still, a parental fail.

But that doesn’t explain how this has continued for like 25 years. His producers, parents, wife, and even kids stand by while he makes a fool out of himself daily by demonstrating the lack of respect for others that a 6-year old child has for others. Every person connected with him is at fault after this amount of time. It is peer review malpractice.

Senator Burr puts Brenna in a tight box here. It’ll be interesting to see how Burr’s role evolves as the narrative becomes too visible to stonewall:

“Director Brennan’s recent statements purport to know, as fact, that the Trump campaign colluded with a foreign power,” Burr said Thursday, questioning why, if Brennan’s assertion is based on actual intelligence, it was not included in the unclassified intelligence assessment released in early 2017.

“If his statement is based on intelligence he has seen since leaving office, it constitutes an intelligence breach. If he has some other personal knowledge of or evidence of collusion, it should be disclosed to the Special Counsel, not The New York Times,” Burr said. Burr added that Trump has the “full authority” to revoke security clearance if the statements were “purely political and based on conjecture.”

“Director Brennan’s recent statements purport to know as fact that the Trump campaign colluded with a foreign power. If Director Brennan’s statement is based on intelligence he received while leading the CIA, why didn’t he include it in the Intelligence Community Assessment……

“Director Brennan’s recent statements purport to know as fact that the Trump campaign colluded with a foreign power. If Director Brennan’s statement is based on intelligence he received while leading the CIA, why didn’t he include it in the Intelligence Community Assessment……

But unfortunately, since H. Clinton’s extremely major intel breaches have been OKAYED and NOT PROSECUTED, the precedent has been set that Intelligence breaches are not considered as even misdemeanors anymore.

You can get into more trouble with a broken signal light on the back of your car than with a breach of TOP SECRET US INTELLIGENCE.

It is important to remember, the media cannot ever reverse course on the "spygate" DOJ/FBI conspiracy against candidate/president Trump; because the media were key participants, fully engaged within it. pic.twitter.com/FN5sFSWtFs

Awesome point, SD. To paraphrase, MSM cannot get to the truth about spygate because to do so would reveal their complicity.

To this end (imho), the clamp down on outside news sources is a vain attempt to stifle further investigation into spygate, fisa, fusion GPS, and botched FBI Clinton investigation. MSM can’t investigate themselves without admitting their involvement. MSM needs PDJT’s impeachment even more than the Uniparty.

“I have an adopted minority son — yes, I do — who happens to have Down Syndrome,” Loudon replied as Rye rolled her eyes and refused to look at the camera. “He experiences bigotry every single day in a myriad of ways, not just because of his skin color but also because of his disability.”

If Gates was proven on the stand to be a liar and a cheat and to have cut a deal with the prosecution for immunity, isn’t it pretty reasonable to think you can’t trust what he says or that he may be lying about this, just as he was lying about that?

This is such a great point I’ve been thinking about for 2 years now. How come there are no comedians that can playfully, poke a little fun at the President? It has to just be all evil hatred. Here’s a funny one.

“The Trump administration is close to striking a deal with Mexico on a revamped North American Free Trade Agreement, analysts said, but thorny issues are yet to be resolved with Canada, the third party in the trilateral pact.

Reaching an agreement with Mexico would mark a breakthrough for the administration after a year of roller-coaster talks and tension with its longtime North American trading partners. President Trump has frequently threatened to withdraw from NAFTA, linked the renegotiations to his call for a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border and slapped tariffs on Mexican and Canadian steel to apply pressure to make concessions.

But both Mexico and the U.S. have strong incentives to push through a deal quickly. Mexico wants to lock in an agreement before its new leftist president takes office, and the White House is keen on achieving a win on trade ahead of the midterm elections.”

What is wrong with these alleged allies of ours countering the leftists “First Amendment” argument or the collusion of 200 newspapers today? On all the shows, Tucker, Hannity, Ingraham and Lipgloss Barbie Breem they are clueless about effective communication. President Trump himself is missing a golden opportunity to set the record straight. Here are the correct answers …

CNN and the other networks are First Amendment protected members of the press. WRONG! These Enemedia networks have nothing to do with the First Amendment and are not the press. They have an illegally privileged monopolistic position that keeps out everyone else from transmitting into the homes that they dominate and any efforts to block these networks transmission would be greeted as piracy and be prosecuted. What they are is DNC-TV, unregulated unlicensed political action committees running (D)emocrat-Socialist commercials 24/7/365. And yes, Fox News is GOPe-TV with some rare exceptions.

If the DNC and GOPe set out today to form television channels they would pale in comparison to the existing Enemedia. And they wouldn’t bother since they would be highly regulated according to existing rules and whatever their goals would be are already met and exceeded by the Enemedia. What needs to happen is that the FCC and other regulators simply apply the same rules that allow them to ban violence, bloodshed like murder, Carlin’s curse words, child or adult pornography and many other things to political campaigning disguised as news. Assign substantial backbreaking fines for violations and then the system will self-correct with non-leftists reporting politicking violations on CNN etc, and leftists reporting on Fox violations. This has gone on so long that is has become normalized. No party should have a monopoly on TV’s in every household that has a TV. Yet that is exactly what transpired ( thank McCain and the other politicians that destroyed the Broadcast, cable, TV and Radio universe by allowing mergers galore and yielding to lobbying by the same perps ).

200 Newspaper editorials are fighting to save the First Amendment from the dictator President. WRONG! President Trump is using his First Amendment to call the press out as biased and partisan. The Enemedia would love to be immune from criticism, especially high profile criticism from a President reversing the lay-down-and-die tradition of his predecessors. But they are not immune and are in truth attacking the First Amendment themselves by complaining about the President using the First Amendment. Typical leftist hypocrisy and projection.